Quiz Prep: Musicology Quiz #4

What two contrasting concepts are related to trasmission?

• Audio Recordings and Notation

• Variance and Fixity

• Traditional Western Classical Music Notation and Lead sheets

• Traditional Western Classical Music Notation and Graphic Notation

Aural Transmission is completed by...

• Listening to the music.

• Reading the sheet music.

• Singing or playing the music.

• Physically experiencing the music.

The compositional practice of sampling is similar to...

• The cosmology of the Suya's song.

• The cyclical usage of the gong in Javanese Gamelan music.

• The usage and repetition of topics in Sonata Form.

• The repetition in the jubilus in Gregorian Chant.

Which came first...

• St. Augustine's writings that we read for class.

• Virga and Punctum

• Azān

• The Jubilus

What is Virga and Punctum?

• Virga and Punctum are notational signals used in Gregorian Chant notation.

• Virga and Punctum help classical musicians know what dynamics to play.

• Virga and Punctum are a part of the notation of the Call to Prayer.

• Virga and Punctum are legal terms related to what can and cannot be sampled per copyright laws.

Which best describes the French Overture Topic?

• "It's time for bed."

  "But I don't want to go to bed."

  "You have no choice."

  "Oh yes I do and please don't start to raise your voice."

• Long short Long short

• "In musicology we like to sing, we sing every day, it helps us to learn what the music's trying to say."

• "This is more awkward and formal."

What are the four types of transmission that Bruno Nettl describes in his essay?

• aural, written, printed, recorded

• aural, written embodied, printed

• written, embodied, printed, aural

• Aural, written, printed, embodied

(a)   refers to a shift in musical rhythms in Javanese Gamelan music.

Which author considered music notation to be a technology?

• Robert Wasler

• Thomas Forrest Kelly

• Richard Taruskin

• Christopher Small

"Fight the Power" by Public Enemy uses which musicological concepts?

• Ethos

• Sampling

• Irama

• Development